Hate Speech War Report: Final Round XV

[RedDjinn]

I agree with link... def a cluster fuck, most of the staff was rude as hell not even considering how far some of these people came to play from...

Meeting everyone was awesome though ;) I wish I would have got to play more in a room some where but I was either busy with the MK guys from Canada or in some random room for SC...

DK called me sexy though so Im good ;) haha till next time!

 

[ShinBlanka]

I had my own share of problems, but pretty much everybody else mentioned or addressed them in their own posts, so I won't touch it. I will say that I still had a blast, despite all of the problems, and I MOST DEFINITELY COMMEND shinblanka for running a relatively successful DESPITE real life problems as big and sudden as his slapping him in the face at the worst possible time. Honestly, i wouldnt have blamed u if u had cancelled the whole tournament the day before, but I'm glad u kept things movement, as the community as a whole benifitted.

I will offer these suggestion.

1. BIGGER VENUE. This is easily the largest tournament IN THE WORLD behind EVO, and it will likely be that way for years to come. Plus it runs more games. I hope next years venue will be as big as the one at CEO

2.,NO AT THE DOOR REGISTRATION, PERIOD. UFGT does it. EVO does it. Both of these tournaments are considered the best ran tournaments in the US. NO door reg is a big part of it. I think final round has gotten too big for on-site reg.

Well, ill be back next year

UFGT has at the door reg, but they cap their tournaments so they know what the max amount of players they will prepare for. Both no door reg and cap the tournament sounds good to me at this time but i'm leaning towards no door reg. That way we can control the tournament better and have brackets / pools made before 1 person walks in the doors on openning day. The only thing about that is we had 189 sign up only and then the rest sign up at the door. We don't reach those numbers if we don't have registration at the door. SF4 has 312 online but it so close we didn't think over 130 would sign up at the door also. We had 320 in sf4 last year so that was a HUGE JUMP in attendance this year. Just things like that I have to weigh the pros and cons of getting rid of the at the door reg. We need to get a bigger venue 1st and formost. It would have been better if everyone wasn't on each others back during the whole tournament. I'm in the process of looking for a new venue.

 

[Omega]

I loved the tournament, the only downfall for me was tekken 6 tourney, but its all good, good luck to the guys going to MLG and the upcoming tourneys, unfortunatly the appointment for the residenci came out, so im doing a bunch of stuff and i may have to go back to DR which im not happy about it but will see, kick some asses bitches, see you at EVO.


Loved to see RTD on Destroyer mode, and guys remember we have to be more flexible cause if you dont know how difficult it is to run a tournament, try to run one with multiple games and if you dont make any mistakes let me know. Even at Evo there have been a lot of shit going on, next year i will be in atlanta again, if everything goes well, chequerao.

 

[OmegaXCN]

Loved the write-up. I especially loved the analysis of playstyle by region. Looks pretty accurate.

I'm a bit disappointed that Canada didn't have much of a presence at this one, most likely because they were still recovering from their long trip to Winter Brawl. Canada in full force is definitely worthy of their own section.

 

[ZBeast]

I really don't feel like beating a dead horse, especially with ShinBlanka already admitting how bad the tournament was. I just want to emphasize some things, even if they were mentioned already.

First off, I got there at 10 and didn't find out which pool I was in until 3:00 or so, when things began to cool down around the command center, which is frustrating, but worse things have happened. What I really didn't appreciate was this tug-o-war that happened once both my SC and KoF pool started at the same time and I kept having multiple matches being called simultaneously.

The "two minutes to DQ" thing was ridiculous, because there were four games going on at any one time, and two minutes usually isn't enough time to finish a match!

To emphasize this point further, I had my name called multiple times during a single KoF match. This was right after finishing an SC match. Not a big deal, I ask someone to go tell them I'm playing. I hear my name get called again at the beginning of the match, and sometime during the second match I hear the "two minutes to DQ" warning. This is very distracting and it makes it harder to play when you have to constantly try and find a messenger during a match. Also, each of these calls were spaced 2-3 minutes apart so I know someone had told them I was playing and they still continued to call my name. In fact, Link confirmed that he told them I was playing when he first heard my name get called. They were just being ridiculously impatient (kof matches last awhile).

I shouldn't have had to hear that ever because I was in the tournament venue for nearly the entire day, with one small break to eat a chicken sandwich (at a time that none of my pools were playing). To top that off, with pre-registration this situation could have been avoided altogether. It's infuriating that by the time I got to the guy to play my SC match, he basically said "just sit tight for a moment" because my opponent wasn't there to play.

Outside of that I just want to point out that one speaker was too close to the SC stations and I'm done.